Moulin Rouge A Novel Based on the Life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - SIGNED Copy
New York: Random House, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. 438. First Printing stated. Blue cloth with TL monogram in orange and crown in blind on the cover, spine titles in gilt and silver, head edges painted gray. In the color-illustrated dust jacket, uncredited, with author portrait on rear: price-clipped; light edge-wear. Bookseller tag affixed to rear flap (Tecolote Book Shop, Santa Barbara). Inscribed by La Mure in his characteristic narrow script on the front free endpaper. Fine / Very Good. Item #13419 French writer Pierre La Mure was living in the US and writing about it for French publications when WWII broke out. Unable to return to France, he taught himself to write in English to revive his career. This was his first novel in his adopted language. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Biographical novel of the life of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, on which the 1952 movie Moulin Rouge was based.
Price: $350.00